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wouIu not nave today disciple ies:
G.he Daptists were hurled out Of Boston in
the oIden times. Those who sympathized
with them were confined, and when petition
was offered asking leniency in their behalf
all men who signed it were indicted. Has III
tolerance stopped the Baptist church2 Tho
last statistics in regard lit showed about
&c, 600 churches and about 25OO, 900 commune
cants Intoleranceneverp put down anything.
In England law was made against the
jew. England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the Jew, and declared that no
Jew should hold official position. What
came Of itl Were the Jews destroyed Was
their religion overtime Hn? No. Who be-
caino prime minister Of England years
ago? Who was next to the throne? Who
was higher than the throne because he WIS
counselor and atlvser3 Tho descendant Of o
Jew. Whit were we celebrating in all our
churches MS well as synagogues few years
ago2 The one huudredth birthday aniiiver-
sary of Montelore, the great Jewish philan-
thropist. Intolerance never yet put down
anything.
III. But now, my friends, having shown
you the origins Of bigotry or sectarianism, and
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this terrible evil, and I think wc4 !, ought to
begin our war by realizing our weakness and
our imperfections. II we make so many
mistakes in the common. affairs Of life, is it
not possible that we inay make mistakes III
regard to our religious affairsl ShallSwe
take man by the tbront, or by the collar,
because he cannot see religious truths just as
we doq In the light of eternity it will DO
found OUT, think, thoro was something
wrong i'll nil our creeds, and something right
in all our creeds. But since wo mny make
mistakes in regard to things Of the world, do
not let us be egotistic, and so pufPc,l up as to
have mn idea that We cannot mako Any mis-
tnke in regard to religious theories. And
then / think we will do great deal to over
throw the sectarianism from our henrt, and
the sectariaIHsm from the world, by chiefly
cnarging upon those things in which we
agree rather than those on which we differ.
Now, here is great Gospel platform. A
man comes up on this side tho platform and
says: II don't believe i'll baby splinkling. +"
Shall shove him OFF, Here is d man coming
uu OIL this side the platform, and be says: Il
don't believe i'll the perseverance of the
| saints Shall l shove him off! No. will
say: $40 you believe In the Lord Jesus as
your Saviour7 do you trust him for time and
for eternityH He says YES" "Do you
take Christ for time and for eternityf
ssYes.n say. "Come on, ,rothers; one i'll
time and one in eternity; brother now,
brother forever Blessed be God for O Cos
pel platform SO largo that all who receive
Christ may stand ON it
think we muy overthrow the severe sec
tarlanisln and bigotry IN our hearts, and in
the church also, by realizing that all the de-
nominations of Christians have yielded noble
institutions and noble men. There is nothing
that so stis my soul as this thought. One
denomination yielded Robert Hall and an
A,ionireni Judson; another yielded Lati-
mer and Melville; another yielded John
| Wesley ond the blessed SummerAeld, while
our own denomination yielded John Knox
and the Ale1anders-men Of whom the world
was not worthy. Now, say, If we are hon
hest and fair minded men, when we come up
in the presence OF such churches and such de-
nominations, although they may be different
from our own, we ought to admire theua and
we ought to love and honor them. Churches
which can produce such men, and su.h large
hearted CHARITY, and such magnificent mar
tyrdom. ought to win our afection-at any
! rate. our respect. So come on, ye 100000
Episcopalians in this country, and 20 SO0,000
.Presbvterians, and ye 2,250, 900 Baptists, and
We nearly 8, 100000 .Methodists-come on,
oulder-So should CT. yge. Yill nlsgch for The
worlds conquest; = for all sna tion5 nresto be
saved, and God demands that you and help
do t. Forward, the whole line.
Moreover we may also overthrow the feel
ing Of severe sectarinnisnl by joining other
denominations in Christian work. l like
when tire springtime comes and tho anniver-
sary occasions begin and all denominations
come upon the Same platform. That over
throws sectarianism In tho Young Mems
Christian association, in the Bible society, in
tho Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary
society, shoulder to shoulder all denoniina-
tions.
Perhaps I might more forcibly illustrate
this truth by calling your attention TO ON i'll
cident which took place fourteen or fifteen
wears ago. One Monday morning at about
3 o'clock, while her 900 passengers were sound
asleep in her berths dreaming of home, tho
steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head.
Five hundred souls in ton minutes landed III
eternity! Oh, what scene Agonizcd men
and women running up and down the gang
ways and clutching for the rigging, und' the
plunge Of the helpless steamer, and tho clap-
ping of the hands Of the merciless seq over
the drowning and the dead, threw two CONT
nents into terror. But see this bravo quar-
tcrnaster pushing out with tho life line until
he gets to the rock and see these fishermen
+, gathering up the shipwrecked and tax
! ing them into the cabins and wrapping
them in the fannels snug and warm; and see
that minister Of the Gospel with three other
men getting into lifeboat and pushing out
for the wreck, pulling away across the surf
and pulling away until they saved ono more
man. and then getting back with him to the
shore. Can those NEIL ever forget that night!
j And can they ever forget their companion
1 ship in peril, companionship in struggle, conf
panionship in awful catastrophe and rescuei
Never! Never! In whatever part Of the
earth they meet they will be friends when
they mention the story Of that awful night
when the Atlantic struck Mars Head.
Well, my friend, our world has gone into
worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rocks.
The old ship has lurched and tossed IN the
tempests of six thousand years Out with tue
life line! lido not care whos denomination
carries IL. Out with the lifeboatl do not
care what denomination rows it. Side
side in tho memory of common hardships.
COMMON trials, and common prayers,
common tears, let us be brothers forever.
must be- We must be.
One army Of the living God
To whose command we bow;
Part OF the host have crossed the food
And part are crossing now.
And I expect to see the day when oil de-
nominations OF Christians shall join hands
around the cross of Christ and recite the
creed: al believe in God the Father Almighty,